Juuso Lavonen
Finland
2016 | 0:23:00

The documentary tells a story of Syrian born Finnish citizen Rami Adham who delivers humanitarian aid to the children of the world’s most dangerous city. Adham travels many times in a year to the war zone in Aleppo and delivers medicine, food and donated toys from Finland to orphans. The war in Syria has caused an humanitarian catastrophe to the nation and we can see this throughout the documentary from the streets of Aleppo. Allthough most of civilians have fled Aleppo, to the Turkish side or as refugees to Europe some are still hanging on in the city ruins. The documentary follows Adham’s preparation to one of these trips and we hear his thoughts about the conflict and the importance of giving aid to the children of Syria.

Ali Coates, Signe Pierce
USA
2014 / 0:14:00

A social experiment with performance artist Signe Pierce who walked the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in a sexy tight dress and mask. Director Alli Coates and Pierce agreed not to communicate until the experiment was over, but never expected the terrible responses. A technicolour spectacle that elicits questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality and violence in America.

Pablo Narezo
Mexico, Germany
2016 / 0:56:00

Everything starts with a backpack full of 8 mm films that gets lost on a trip from Germany to Mexico. The films in the backpack document the everyday life and travels of a mexican middle class family over 3 generations. "Casi Paraíso" is a film in which 8mm footage, collected photographs, magnetic tape recordings and filmed moments are combined to reflect on violence in Mexico nowadays. When the filmmaker's daughter is born and becomes the fifth generation of this film, he starts an inquiry into the past while he follows the events back home.